Two Tigers killed in confrontation with STF

RANIL WIJAYAPALA

Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel operating in Ampara yesterday confronted a group of LTTE cadres who had infiltrated the Kanchikudichchuaru jungles killing two Tigers, Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told the Daily News yesterday.

According to the Military Spokesman, Police Special Task Force personnel confronted this LTTE group around 8.15 am yesterday.

Following a search operation carried out in the area troops recovered two LTTE bodies, two T-56 weapons, three magazines, two grenade pistols, two 60mm mortar launchers, twenty-four 60mm mortar shells, five detonator boxes, 381 anti personnel mines, one detonator code, fourteen boxes of ammunition, two RPG shells and one pouch, he said.

A special team of Commando troops conducting search operations in Ampara last Monday in Bakmitiyawa also confronted a group of LTTE terrorists who had infiltrated the jungle patches of Ampara, killing four of them.

Army and STF personnel are conducting frequent search operations on information received that a team of Wanni Tiger cadres had infiltrated the area with the motive of destabilising the security situation in the East at a time intense fighting is going on in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu battlefronts.

According to military sources a team of 21 Tiger cadres led by Nagulan, a one time LTTE leader in the East has infiltrated the East with the objective of destabilsing the security situation and four Tiger cadres who had been killed by the Commando troops in Bakmitiyawa in Ampara on Monday belonged to that group.

“We suspect that the two Tiger cadres killed in Kanchikudichchiaru yesterday were also from the same group,” Brigadier Nanayakkara added.